Aberdeen urge SPFL to wait, it will make no difference

I’m delighted Aberdeen got on-board with the suggestion the SPFL refrain from making a quick decision to curtail the Premiership season. In a letter to the other 11 SPFL teams, the League and SFA, they want to explore every way possible to complete the remaining league and Scottish Cup fixtures, while keeping a full 2020-21 fixture programme.

There is no reason for the SPFL, or our governments, to act quickly to cancel the season, and every reason to monitor what happens in countries where plans to relax lockdown have been prepared.

Chairman Dave Cormack outlined objectives and concerns, including the health of players and their ability to perform during a heavy fixture burden without affecting the outcome of games. His optimism is commendable, but almost certainly misplaced.

Players are in a demographic considered among the safest from the worst consequences of virus, but playing football games will spread Covid among squads. Fixtures cannot be fulfilled if your squad is ill with Covid, or isolating because they have been exposed to the virus. Recuperation time from an illness with such consequences is also likely to be substantial for an athlete (this remains uncertain as no athlete has yet recuperated and returned to competition).

I would love to see the season end competitively. We will not be able to attend games, but we would be able to watch Celtic win the title on the field, see Hearts relegated the way nature intended and watch Newco play their home games in Paisley.

Instead of cramming lots of games into the available time, I suspect the first year football returns will see lots of fixture cancellations and competition overruns. We have yet to get our heads around where the world is right now, but there’s no reason Aberdeen cannot look into possibilities. Wait until June, realise what you should have known for months and call it then.

I agree don’t see anything wrong with the sheep’s statement, play it out if we can and we all agree to that. What I don’t understand is why the Huns are getting excited about it but then again they are thick😱

Everybody knows there are two Ewen/Ewan Murrays to avoid whenever possible.

There’s Ewen Murray the Hearts fan who waffles a lot about golf but is pretty sound on swing mechanics and there’s Ewan Murray the Hearts fan who writes rubbish in the Guardian.

You ‘n’ me would prefer to talk to Alisdair Maclean about why Ewan Henderson at Ross County couldn’t match the impact McCann made at St Johnstone. There’s only three months age difference between the two.

If and when football returns we should insist that 19/21 season completes. UEFA has implied they will accept nominated Champions from each member. This allows Celtic as provisional champions and qualifying for Champions League at whatever stage we have to start.

We should look at the effects on Sevco. They have no line of credit from any Bank. It may be that they don’t qualify for Government loans either. They have no commercial income and no Kit sponsor. If rumours are true then they cannot use any 20/21 season ticket money until the season has a start date. If the 19/20 season is to be played out then SPFL cannot pay out the final tranche until the 8/9 games are played out.

Now their players have deferred salaries for a short time. Can they defer till December 2020.

in fact they have no income from any where soon Their accounts said they needed £10m to finish the season what can they do about the 6 months of no income following the season end of May 20

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